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Dougie is the bass player and backing vocalist of british pop-rock band McFly. He has co-writer credits on many of McFly's tracks, including the lead writer credit on their 2007 number one single "Transylvania". Poynter also wrote an unrecorded track called Silence Is A Scary Sound, which is featured as a live recording on their third studio album Motion In The Ocean. Poynter was 15 when he joined the band. Because of his young age, Dougie and the other members of McFly hold the record for the youngest band to ever have a debut album go straight to number one, a record previously held by The Beatles. McFly are currently recording their 6th studio album... keep reading.

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MSN Entertainment were lucky enough to grab half an hour with the lovely McFly boys and give their fans a chance to ask them questions about anything, including their new book Unsaid Things, superpowers and One Direction. Check out the highlights from the webchat…

MSN Entertainment: If one member of One Direction could join McFly, who would you pick?
Tom: I think I’d pick Niall, he’d be the most entertaining. And he could make us famous in America.
Dougie: But we’d have to change his name to Nigel!

LucyBMX asked: Why change his name to Nigel?
Danny: We had nicknames for them all… Niall wanted one so I gave him Nigel. Zayn’s was Manny (he’s a Philippino boxer), Barry Styles… I can’t remember the others.

Allegra_GD asked: Which are your favourite McFly songs?
Tom: I like the new one a lot, it’s my favourite one we’ve done in a while.
Danny: If You See Kate, we all like that one.

RitaD_25 asked: what’s the best thing ever happened in a tour?
Tom: The guy who owns the Back to the Future Delorean came and visited us on tour.
Danny: I got an ingrown toe-nail! I actually did, I had to have it operated on. It was a tour-nail.

McflyMad asked: If you had any magical powers what would they be and why?
Harry: The power to make people’s clothes disappear!
Danny: I’d like to fly. I’d keep forgetting there’d be ceilings and roofs, I’d hit my head!

MSN Entertainment asked: Harry, are you watching Strictly this year, and if so who are you rooting for?
Harry: Yes, I am watching Strictly this year, I’m rooting for lots of people. I tell you why; last year I didn’t like it when I read that people said they were rooting for someone else!

Katie Emms asked: When is the next album being released?
Tom: The Best Of comes out in November and there’s a new song from that called Love Is Easy. Album number six at some point…

Ellieeee asked: who is the smelliest member?
Dougie: It depends which flavour… Danny is veggie, if you like spice in your life, Harry’s your man!

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McFly with MSN Entertainment’s Lucy
Sweetalbiol13 asked: Favourite part of your body?
Danny: I like the metatarsal in my foot!

Camile Poynter asked:

Next year you completed 10 years of your career. What do you expect to happen in 10 years?
Tom: It’s hard to predict, I don’t think anyone would have predicted how the last 10 years have gone. Hopefully we’ll all still be alive :).

DIVEMELISSADIVE asked: Dumbledore or Gandalf???
Dougie: Gandalf.
Tom: But Dumbledore’s magic is a bit more obvious…

Hanfo asked: Who is more attractive:Danny or Harry from One Direction?
Tom: Is this a joke question?
Harry: I’d say it’s tight… I’d say Harry just about takes it. Only cause he’s younger.
Tom: Danny when he was 19.
Danny: Yeah I’d say Harry, he’s fresh.

McFly’s new single Love Is Easy and their Greatest Hits album are both released in November. Their autobiography Unsaid Things is out now!

The McFLY boys are the latest in a long line of celebs to release a ‘tell all’ book and Entertainmentwise recently met up with the boys to find out the secrets behind their long term success and to get some all important advice for new band on the scene, the one and only One Direction…

The four-piece have been entertaining their army of fans for the past 10 years and continue to do so as they release their new book ‘Unsaid Things’, which goes through each of their personal life stories and basically fills in the missing gaps so that their fans know the entire story.

But, what is it that makes McFLY so special and gives them the ability to be able to stick around the music scene where so many other bands tend to just disappear?

Harry Judd tells us, “We offer more as a band for our fans. They all came to see us over the years and just keep coming back”

Adding, “The songs are written from the heart so the fans can have a real connection with us which is really important”

Tom then added, “The longetivity I think is the thing that most bands struggle with, there’s always bands that come through that are the ‘band of the moment'”

“We’ve had our time of doing that, when we first came out we were in that position but that’s never going to last forever and it’s how to progress beyond that and it’s amazing that our fans have kept us here and kept us strong, enabling us to still have success 10 years on”

And when asked what advice they would give young heart-throbs One Direction on their current superstardom, Harry simply said: “Just read the book and don’t do anything that we did, learn from our mistakes.”

The ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ stars have hooked up with Tom Fletcher on their forthcoming album.

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One Direction are working with McFly’s Tom Fletcher on their new album, it has emerged.

Liam Payne tweeted that the group were working with the ‘5 Colours In Her Hair’ star at their recording studio today (17th August).

He wrote on Twitter: “in studiooo with @tommcfly , cant waitfor you to hear the new albummm.”

Tom later tweeted on his own account, revealing that One Direction’s Harry Styles had just cooked everyone a barbeque, while his band mates and other McFly stars helped prepare the food.

“BBQ with 1D. Food supplied by @Harry_Styles and prepared by a variety of Mcfly/1D hands,” he wrote.

He also posted a picture showing Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson enjoying some of Harry’s food.

One Direction have a break from recording their new album: (picture: Twitter)

One Direction’s new album has yet to be given a release date, but Niall has confirmed that it will arrive before the end of 2012.

The follow-up to 2011’s ‘Up All Night’ will see One Direction once again team up with Ed Sheeran as well as the production crew behind ‘What Makes You Beautiful’.

The One Direction lads are busier than a troupe of one armed wallpaper hangers, and are of course currently spending long days in the studio recording their highly anticipated second album.

However, yesterday, One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles decided that some leisure time was in order, so he invited his 1D mates, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Zayn Malik over for a barbecue…

And while he was at it, he invited the McFly boys too, given they too have been with 1D in the studio, having collaborated on some tracks with the lads.

From the studio, Liam tweeted, “in studiooo with @tommcfly , cant wait for you to hear the new albummm.”

Then later, McFly’s Tom tweeted, “BBQ with 1D. Food supplied by @Harry_Styles and prepared by a variety of Mcfly/1D hands…”

He also posted a picture of Zayn, Niall and Louis enjoying the fruits of Harry’s BBQ labour.

The 1D and McFly boys have become solid friends of late, mostly because of their close working relationship.

Back in July, Tom tweeted, “Had the 1D boys over my place today for some song writing.”